AMD indeed goes 65nm

Author: Brett Thomas
Published: 5th December 2006
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AMD indeed goes 65nm

"Honey, I shrunk the chips!" - The new Athlon X2 has been shrunk to 65nm, available immediately.

Ever since the release of Intel's Core2 lineup, rumours have been flying about how AMD would counter it. Clearly, 4x4 is aimed straight at the heart of Kentsfield, though many reports state it may have missed. So, the big focus has been on how quickly Big Green can get its wonderful X2 line of processors down in die size to win the price/performance ratio.

Well, it's finally happened. In a press release this morning, AMD has confirmed that it is indeed releasing its new 65nm X2 processors before the end of the year. How soon, you ask? You can purchase them right now!

The move to 65nm is a big step forward for AMD, which has been behind Intel in die size since the Presler core (late Pentium 4). Presler was the first 65nm process, and was released right at the end of 2005. Of course, Presler really failed to show off what 65nm could do, as it was neither cool-running nor low-power. The entire Core 2 line is also 65nm, though, and seems to have fixed many of those mistakes.

Despite Core 2's power, AMD's new X2 lineup could be a new standard on the price/performance ratio if history is anything to go by. Though the chips are not going to take the performance crown from Conroe, they have already been released as low power consumption - the move to 65nm should only help to further that. We'll let you know as soon as we get a couple of our own tests done, of course.

Have you got a thought on the die shrink? Let us know in our forums.
Quote M4RTIN 5th December 2006, 15:33
i dunno about low cost chips, the e6300 is only £!20 id say thats some stunning value for money.
Quote DXR_13KE 5th December 2006, 15:43
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Originally Posted by M4RTIN
i dunno about low cost chips, the e6300 is only £!20 id say thats some stunning value for money.

you mean £120 .... i hope.....

lets see what these babies can do. :D
Quote Mother-Goose 5th December 2006, 16:04
I agree with M4RTIN, I guess the AM2's will have to be really cheap or really low on power requirements (god for htpc with small psu?) Whilst it is good news (especially for K8L) I still cannot see that these will be much competition for the core2duo and that is a real shame. I'll be keen to see Tims point of view on the matter or anyone who knows more about it than me lol from a 4x4 point of view though it is good. Less power consumed (which I believe was an issue with the original 4x4?).
Quote BUFF 5th December 2006, 16:48
Perhaps the real point of these is that it both increases production for AMD (more cores per wafer) at a time when they seem able to sell pretty much everything that they can make & lowers the individual cost of production.
In other words it's good for AMD without necessarily being much of an improvement for the consumer.
Quote antiHero 5th December 2006, 17:13
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Originally Posted by BUFF
In other words it's good for AMD without necessarily being much of an improvement for the consumer.

I think they are pushing the prices down in order to comped with Intel. I f you can get a chip with 90% of the power for 60% of the price you dont think twice what to buy(unless you`r a fanboy).
Quote Tyinsar 5th December 2006, 17:17
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Originally Posted by antiHero
...a chip with 90% of the power for 60% of the price...
Before the Athlon that was pretty much exactly what AMD did. This will be familiar ground for them
Quote BUFF 5th December 2006, 17:21
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Originally Posted by antiHero
I think they are pushing the prices down in order to comped with Intel.
if they can sell everything that they make (as they pretty much seem to be currently) at current prices then they don't need to drop prices.
Of course if they can now make more than the demand then they would indeed drop prices to stimulate more.
Quote airchie 6th December 2006, 10:19
So are these new CPUs gonna be mad OCers or what?
Quote BUFF 6th December 2006, 10:34
The first ones maybe not (btw SCAN has some 65nm X2 4200+s in stock) but as the process matures they just might
Quote teamtd11 6th December 2006, 10:39
damb. i just bought a 4200 yesterday (65W version though )
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